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Elian Gonzalez back in news again
Here’s a name I didn’t think I’d hear again, but remember Elian Gonzalez, whose story transfixed our nation eight years ago in an international custody fight between the U.S. and Cuba?
Now comes the news that the 14-year-old has joined Cuba’s Young Communist Union, according to the Associated Press.
Communist youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde quotes Gonzalez as saying he will never let down ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro, who succeeded Fidel earlier this year.
Elian was 6 when Miami relatives lost their fight to keep him in the United States and he was returned to Cuba in mid-2000 with his father.
Elian had survived a boating accident off the Florida coast that killed his mother, who was attempting to get to the U.S.
Juventud Rebelde said in its Sunday edition that the boy was among 18,000 people who joined the group on Saturday.
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By KDF
June 16, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this
Elian is not known to most of us personally, but as most youths of Cuba, I am fairly sure this is a forced conscription. God bless him and his country. <><
By Bear
June 16, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this
Janet Reno must be so proud, as indeed the Clintons must be. I loved the way this story was written that Elian “survived a boating accident off the Florida coast that killed his mother, who was attempting to get to the U.S.” instead of saying the truth “His mother died trying to get him to freedom, but we sent him back. At gunpoint.” More accurate. More Tragic. Did the ACLU ever get upset about THAT home invasion? Didn’t think so.